People who suffer from migraines are twice as likely to be depressed and could easily also be suicidal especially people younger than 30 according to the Canadian researchers. Routine screenings and interventions are needed for those migraine sufferers to preempt any depressed or suicidal thoughts. “We are not sure why younger migrainers have such a high likelihood of depression and suicidal idealization,” study co-author Meghan Schrumm, a former graduate student at the University of Toronto, said in a university news release. “It may be that younger people with migraines have not yet managed to find adequate treatment or develop coping mechanisms to minimize pain and the impact of this chronic illness on the rest of their lives,” Schrumm suggested.

If that is the case for the their conclusions, may I offer an alternative. I know from personal experience how migraines can rule the day.as I suffered from them and in some cases they were so severe that all I wanted to do was find a dark place, pull the blanket over my head, stop all noises, and wait til it was over.

The study, published online recently in the journal Depression Research and Treatment, involved more than 6,000 Canadians who said they had been diagnosed with migraines. The researchers compared them to a much larger group who did not report having migraines. As in previous studies, migraines were much more common among women, with one in every seven women reporting having migraines, compared with one in every 16 men.

Of study participants, more than 8 percent of men and 12 percent of women who experienced migraines also suffered from depression, compared to just above 3 percent of men and about 6 percent of women who did not have migraines. Of course it is depressing to have headaches all the time. Especially if there seems to be no answers, and no results.

Younger people with migraines were much more likely than older patients to develop symptoms of depression. Women younger than 30 who suffered from migraines had six times the odds of being depressed than adults aged 65 and older. Migraine sufferers who were single or had trouble with daily activities were also at increased risk for depression.

Men and women with migraines were also much more likely than those without the headaches to have seriously considered committing suicide. Although nearly 16 percent of men and 18 percent of women with migraines said they thought about taking their own life, about 8 percent of men and 9 percent of women who didn’t have migraines said the same. With statistics like these, and I was one of them, except I found an answer, which is why I am a Chiropractor today. It was like it was one of the best kept secrets in the medical profession. I have been migraine free ever since coming under Chiropractic care. From my practice, I will admit that not all cases is spinal dysfunction the reason. There are many cases of medication, allergies, viruses, blood disorders and other reasons why there is a pain in the brain.

So if you are one of the millions of people who is suffering under migraines and headaches and have yet to try and see if Chiropractic can help. Please feel free to call me. From experience both as a former migraine patient and as a practicing Chiropractor who has handled thousands of cases in my twenty year practice, I just might be able to take care of you like no medication could or has ever helped you.

Magnesium is no longer in the food we eat, because the soil is depleted. Magnesium deficiency is often misdiagnosed because it does not show up in blood tests – only 1% of the body’s magnesium is stored in the blood. Like water we need magnesium everyday. There is an eternal need for magnesium as well as water and when magnesium is present in water life and health are enhanced.

Research studies show that the majority of Americans are deficient in magnesium. Every known illness has some association with the lack of magnesium in the body. Did you know that magnesium is the most critical mineral required for electrical stability of every cell in the body? A magnesium deficiency may be responsible for more diseases than any other nutrient. Magnesium deficiency is largely overlooked by doctors and their lab tests. Magnesium supplementation can go a long ways towards restoring what the body needs. .

Did you know that one of the signs of magnesium deficiency is thirst? Have you been thirsty, so thirsty that it doesn’t matter how much water you drink, it is never enough? Then think maybe it is a magnesium deficiency. Magnesium is one of the most important mineral in the body. After oxygen, water, and basic food, magnesium may be the most important element needed by our bodies. It is more important than calcium, potassium or sodium because it regulates all three of them.

Magnesium deficiency will disturb sleep and background stress levels and a host of other things that reflect on the quality of life. What is your first clues that you may be deficient. Magnesium is stored in the tissues so those leg cramps, foot pain, or muscle ‘twitches’ cramps, soreness, aches, chest tightness or the feeling that you can not take a deep breath, and pains including headaches can all or any be your first signs. Do you sigh often? That maybe another sign. Other early signs of deficiency include loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, and weakness. As magnesium deficiency worsens, numbness, tingling, seizures, personality changes, abnormal heart rhythms, and coronary spasms can occur. Symptoms involving impaired contraction of smooth muscles include constipation; urinary spasms; menstrual cramps; difficulty swallowing or a lump in the throat [especially provoked by eating sugar], difficulty with oncoming bright headlights [in the absence of eye disease], and loud noises. Other symptoms include insomnia, anxiety, hyperactivity and restlessness with constant movement, panic attacks, and premenstrual irritability. Magnesium deficiency symptoms involving the peripheral nervous system include numbness, tingling, and other abnormal sensations, such as zips, zaps and vibratory sensations. Symptoms or signs of the cardiovascular system include palpitations, heart arrhythmias, and angina due to spasms of the coronary arteries, high blood pressure and mitral valve prolapse. Be aware that not all of the symptoms need to be present to presume magnesium deficiency; but many of them often occur together. People with mitral valve prolapse can also frequently have palpitations, anxiety, panic attacks and premenstrual symptoms. People with magnesium deficiency often seem to be uptight. Other general symptoms include a salt craving, both carbohydrate craving and carbohydrate intolerance, especially of chocolate, and breast tenderness.

Magnesium is needed by every cell in the body including those of the brain. It is one of the most important minerals when considering supplementation because of its vital role in hundreds of enzyme systems and functions related to reactions in cell metabolism, as well as being essential for the synthesis of proteins, for the utilization of fats and carbohydrates. Magnesium is needed not only for the production of specific detoxification enzymes but is also important for energy production related to cell detoxification. A magnesium deficiency can affect virtually every system of the body.

Doctors write millions of prescriptions for tranquilizers each year is the nervousness, irritability, and jitters largely brought on by inadequate diets lacking in magnesium. Persons only slightly deficient in magnesium become irritable, highly-strung, and sensitive to noise, hyper-excitable, apprehensive and belligerent. If the deficiency is more severe or prolonged, they may develop twitching, tremors, irregular pulse, insomnia, muscle weakness, jerkiness and leg and foot cramps. Fix the problem, take magnesium supplements because while it can be found in some foods it may not be enough if you are either not eating enough.

Metabolic differences in individuals, such as excess magnesium excretion by the kidneys, sometimes resulting in magnesium losses and deficiency

If magnesium is severely deficient, the brain is particularly affected. Clouded thinking, confusion, disorientation, marked depression and even the terrifying hallucinations of delirium tremens are largely brought on by a lack of this nutrient and remedied when magnesium is given. Because large amounts of calcium are lost in the urine when magnesium is under supplied, the lack of this nutrient indirectly becomes responsible for much rampant tooth decay, poor bone development, osteoporosis and slow healing of broken bones and fractures. With vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), magnesium helps to reduce and dissolve calcium phosphate kidney stones.

Magnesium deficiency may be a common factor associated with insulin resistance. Symptoms of MS that are also symptoms of magnesium deficiency include muscle spasms, weakness, twitching, muscle atrophy, an inability to control the bladder, nystagmus (rapid eye movements), hearing loss, and osteoporosis. People with MS have higher rates of epilepsy than controls. Epilepsy has also been linked to magnesium deficiencies.

and for those who are severly deficient

No other mag comes close to the bioavailability of this product. This mag can be sprayed or rubbed on to the skin of a cramping muscle and within 180 seconds relief from the cramp occurs. When taken orally by mouth it deals with muscle tension throughout the entire body. We have found profound benefit with this magnesium in dealing with migraine headaches as well. Most (not all) migraines are a direct result of a mag deficiency and when a truly bio-available liquid mag is brought in the problem will go away. Give this product a try, it tastes great and works fast. 1 oz right before bed time is a tremendous sleep aid as well.